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Neighborhood of a Point |
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neighborhood of a point [′nā·bər‚hu̇d əv ə ′pȯint]
(mathematics) A set in a topological space which contains an open set which contains the point; in Euclidean space, an example of a neighborhood of a point is an open (without boundary) ball centered at that point. Neighborhood of a Point (for a metric space), the set of all points whose distance from a given point is less than some positive number R. A neighborhood of this type is called spherical, and the number R is called the radius of the neighborhood. Also frequently considered are rectangular neighborhoods in a plane and their analogs in spaces of any number of dimensions. Sometimes the neighborhood of a point on a line is understood to mean any interval that includes this point, and the neighborhood of a point on a plane is understood to mean any open circle that includes this point but, perhaps, does not have the point as a center. These and other special types of neighborhoods are special cases of more general neighborhoods that are understood to mean all open sets that contain the given point. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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